Vérité Habanc

Vérité Habanc (* in the 16th century; † in the 16th or 17th century) was a French narrator.

life and work

Habanc, who had studied in Poitiers and describes himself as “Gentilhomme Xainctongeois” (nobleman of the Saintonge ), is known only as the author of a single book (1585), of which only a single copy has been found, which up to the most recent times Nowhere mentioned, discovered by Gabriel-André Pérouse and published scientifically in 1989. It joins the series of tragic stories that started out by Matteo Bandello and was represented in French by Pierre Boaistuau , François de Belleforest and Bénigne Poissenot . Apparently it was intended to be the eighth volume in the Belleforest collection.

Comment on the name

The name Vérité Habanc has all the signs of an anagram . If you put the last letter in front, you get Everet Chaban . Chaban is the name of a castle in the Périgord . The concentration of the name on the southwest of France has been proven. Aquitaine was English for a long time, so the English first name is not surprising. But this result remains speculation for the time being.

Works

• Nouvelles histoires tant tragiques que comiques (1585) , ed. by Jean-Claude Arnould and Richard A. Carr, Geneva, Droz, 1989.
  • Les Nouvelles histoires tant tragiques que comiques de Vérité Habanc (1585) , ed. by Jean-Claude Arnould, Thèse, Lyon 2, 1987 (supervised by Gabriel-André Pérouse).

literature

• Gabriel-André Pérouse, Nouvelles françaises du XVIe siècle. Images de la vie du temps , Geneva, Droz, 1977.
• Lionello Sozzi, L '"histoire tragique" nella seconda metà del Cinquecento francese , Turin, Genesi, 1991.
• Edith Taddei, La noblesse provinciale du XVIe siècle à travers "Les propos rustiques" de Noël du Fail, "Le printemps" de Jacques Yver et "Les nouvelles histoires tant tragiques que comiques" de Vérité Habanc , Thèse Paris 3, 1992 (supervised by Madeleine Lazard).

Web links

• Literature by and about Vérité Habanc in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• Information on Vérité Habanc in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• http://ceredi.labos.univ-rouen.fr/main/?colloque-la-collection-des.html (program of a colloquium on the "Histoires tragiques" of the 16th century including Habanc, French)
• http://www.geneanet.org/genealogie/fr/chaban.html (information about the name Chaban)
• http://www.genealogie.com/nom-de-famille/CHABAN.html (information about the name Chaban)